South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
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We are seeking experienced, motivated, and forward-thinking leaders to join our team in three exciting Band 8a opportunities. These roles offer the chance to make a significant impact across service delivery, performance improvement, and long-term condition management within a dynamic and fast-paced healthcare environment.
Long-Term Conditions (LTC) Lead – Permanent
This permanent leadership role will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Long-Term Conditions portfolio, driving service improvement, transformation, and delivery of high-quality patient care. This role is currently Band 8a and is anticipated to develop into a full-time position.
Performance Support Lead – Step 2/3 (9-Month Maternity Cover)
This fixed-term opportunity offers the chance to lead and support key performance improvement initiatives across a range of services. The successful candidate will analyse performance data, identify opportunities for improvement, and work closely with operational teams to deliver sustainable change.
The postholder will be based at our team bases in Central Croydon and/or at the Bethlem Hospital site and some working from home and is required to work at least one late shift from 11:30 to 19:30.
It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date due to an exceptional response. Therefore, we recommend that you apply for this vacancy as soon as possible.
Key Responsibilities
- To deliver NICE recommended, formulation driven psychological interventions for depression and anxiety disorders, adapting interventions for the specific needs and clinical setting.
- To assess and integrate issues surrounding social support, voluntary work and employment into therapy.
- To select and deliver highly specialist evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical models.
- To collect and enter clinical outcome data on a sessional basis; select and interpret outcome measures to inform treatment planning.
- To provide professional managerial, and clinical supervision to HI CBT therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, trainees, assistant psychologist and other junior staff members for all aspects of their work. This must include live supervision of therapist’s work.
- To manage/ oversee the wellbeing and management of a team of staff.
- To provide service level risk management, developing and recording risk management plans.
- To identify aspects of the service, which could be improved and initiate and implement service development projects.
- To improve existing systems and procedures to help contribute to an effectively and efficiently run service.
- To lead on recruitment (only step 2 and 3 lead).
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Benefits
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
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- Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites.
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other Benefits Include
- Counselling services.
- Wellbeing events.
- Long service awards.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Season ticket loan.
- Childcare vouchers.
- Staff restaurants.
We look forward to receiving your application.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Gabriele Dom
- Job title: Joint Service Lead
- Email address: Gabriele.dom@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07710065068
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